Classic Editor has vanished from some browsers

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    raywoodcock · Member ·

    I’ve been using the Tampermonkey script in Opera to compose and edit posts in Classic Editor on a non-plugin WordPress.com blog. Suddenly this morning the script is not working and the means of enabling Classic Editor seem to have disappeared.

    I’m looking at an existing post in my blog. At the top of the screen, I select New > Post. That opens an empty post in the Gutenberg (block) editor. Normally, the script would fix that: I would get that new post in Classic Editor.

    I go into the blog’s Settings > General > Admin Interface Style and choose Classic Style. That option is still there. But the next step advised by WordPress is to go to my list of posts (or pages) > mouse over a post > select Classic Editor. Here, again, the Classic Editor option is missing.

    I try the same steps in the Chrome and Edge browsers. Same results as in Opera. But in Firefox, the script still seems to be working. New posts are opened in the Classic Editor. Even here, though, mousing over an existing post does not yield an option to select Classic Editor.

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    2020testjj · Member ·

    I go into the blog’s Settings > General > Admin Interface Style and choose Classic Style.

    Hi there, As long as your site was created prior to February 2025, in Interface Style choose the Default style instead of Classic. The drop down menu to choose Classic or Block editor when adding a new post in the Posts dashboard should return.

    Let us know how that goes.

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    raywoodcock · Member ·

    After choosing Default as you advise, the “New” button at the very top of the screen still produces a new post in the block editor. That’s the button I’ve always used. I hardly even noticed the “Add Post” button shown in your image. But you’re right – with Default, that does give me a choice of Block or Classic editor, and those two do deliver the different types of new post that one would expect. Apparently your Default choice is also responsible for restoring Classic Editor as an option when mousing over the title of an existing post in the list of posts – at any rate, that now functions differently than it did when I posted the question. Not sure I understand the wording – Default vs. Classic – but it works. Thank you!

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